It's the owner's severe lack of business acumen and horrible service mentality as the reason for a negative review.
Kathy does a great gel manicure, and Kim does a nice job on gel pedicures.
I've been here many times and always make my appointments in advance for same time mani/pedi, at least a day ahead.
My appointment was at 9 AM. Kim started on my pedicure right away. Kathy was not there. Thirty minutes go by, and I ask, "Where's Kathy?" One of the employees answered that she had called her but nothing more. Around 9:45 the owner arrives, and I relay to her that I had an appointment with Kathy for my manicure at 9 AM and was wondering what was going on. Is Kathy coming, or is there any update? Owner says that Kathy had an emergency, but she's on her way. The emergency was that Kathy's father or father-in-law had died. Now at this point, I'm wondering why would you even come into work if your father had died, but I remained understanding. About 10 minutes later, Kathy walks in and starts on my manicure. Meanwhile, Kim has been doing a great job on my pedicure and is about to start painting my toenails. The owner then pulls Kim from painting my toe nails and sends her to another customer to start their pedicure and says that Kathy is going to finish up. The owner has the nerve to tell me that Kim paints too slow and that Kathy can paint much faster. Kathy was in the process of removing my gel polish and hadn't even started the manicure part. It's almost 10:30 now, I'm furious. I confront the owner and ask why she sent Kim away. The owner tries to use the father's death excuse too as the reason for sending Kim away. There's no reason to send Kim away. She paints toe nails just fine, and there isn't any problem with the speed at which she paints.
Too many of these types of businesses have no concept of doing something to accommodate your customer when the business messes up. No discount, no consideration at all for the customer, and many of these nail salons are notorious for confirming appointments with a customer and then also tending to a walk-in at the same time, which is wrong. If you're not going to honor your booked appointments with customers, then don't take them. That's why one makes an appointment in the first place to have the nail service efficiently and without wait.
They ultimately sent Kim back to finish painting my toenails but only after I raised my voice and called the owner on what she had done in front of all the other customers present.
I was always an excellent customer and an extremely generous tipper, 25% on services but they've lost me now. read more